GPS Running Watch - Creative Training With Garmin Forerunner - Workout Types
Runners looking to take their sport to the next level are investing in the GPS running watch, a high-tech gadget that not only measures your time run in your workouts, but can accurately track an athlete's speed, pace, distance and even a course on a map.
Almost all leading sports watch manufacturers offer GPS, but Garmin's Forerunner line currently offers the most advanced watches for running and fitness.
The company stormed the market with their early 101, 201 and 301 models, which were replaced by the 205 and 305 watches a few years later.
Last year Garmin released the 405, which took GPS sports watches to a new level with a touch-sensitive bezel, wireless ANT technology and an aerial mounted watch that actually looks and feels like a regular sized sports watch.
Now Garmin has just released upgrades to their two most sophisticated sports watches, the 305 and 405.
The 305 is replaced by the 310XT, which has navigation features, improved GPS reception and unlike any other Garmin, is waterproof.
The 405XT replaces the 405 with improved calorie calculation, better GPS reception and a user-replaceable wrist band, allowing runners with smaller wrists to enjoy the benefits of GPS.
Both these watches support multiple workout modes.
These allow you to perform structured workout sessions with limits, guides and session goals, allowing you to set up your training to suits your individual level of fitness.
Here is a summary of each of Garmin's workout types in turn: Interval Workouts: One of the most popular workouts among runners is interval training, which is a series of hard efforts followed by a recovery period.
Thanks to sports watch GPS, the Forerunner' watches allow you to do interval work based on distance or time.
Heart Rate Workouts: In Forerunner watches that support a heart rate monitor chest strap, you can configure your workout based on lower and upper heart rate levels in beats per minute (BPM).
This can ensure you are working at your optimum level based on your fitness, the Forerunner will conveniently alert you whenever you fall outside your heart rate limit.
Simple workouts: As the name suggests, simple workouts are simple to set up.
They allow you to set up session goals based on either calories, time or distance.
The watch alerts you when you have achieved your goal.
Advanced Workouts: More flexible than other Forerunner workouts, advanced workouts let you set up specific steps in your workout.
This caters nicely to multiple discipline gym training, but in practice can be used for any sort of fitness activity.
Advanced workouts allow you to set workout goals and to schedule workouts.
Your watch will remind you of sessions you have planned for today.
When you combine the Garmin Forerunner workout types with the power and technology of GPS, the types of workouts you can create are only limited by your imagination.
Almost all leading sports watch manufacturers offer GPS, but Garmin's Forerunner line currently offers the most advanced watches for running and fitness.
The company stormed the market with their early 101, 201 and 301 models, which were replaced by the 205 and 305 watches a few years later.
Last year Garmin released the 405, which took GPS sports watches to a new level with a touch-sensitive bezel, wireless ANT technology and an aerial mounted watch that actually looks and feels like a regular sized sports watch.
Now Garmin has just released upgrades to their two most sophisticated sports watches, the 305 and 405.
The 305 is replaced by the 310XT, which has navigation features, improved GPS reception and unlike any other Garmin, is waterproof.
The 405XT replaces the 405 with improved calorie calculation, better GPS reception and a user-replaceable wrist band, allowing runners with smaller wrists to enjoy the benefits of GPS.
Both these watches support multiple workout modes.
These allow you to perform structured workout sessions with limits, guides and session goals, allowing you to set up your training to suits your individual level of fitness.
Here is a summary of each of Garmin's workout types in turn: Interval Workouts: One of the most popular workouts among runners is interval training, which is a series of hard efforts followed by a recovery period.
Thanks to sports watch GPS, the Forerunner' watches allow you to do interval work based on distance or time.
Heart Rate Workouts: In Forerunner watches that support a heart rate monitor chest strap, you can configure your workout based on lower and upper heart rate levels in beats per minute (BPM).
This can ensure you are working at your optimum level based on your fitness, the Forerunner will conveniently alert you whenever you fall outside your heart rate limit.
Simple workouts: As the name suggests, simple workouts are simple to set up.
They allow you to set up session goals based on either calories, time or distance.
The watch alerts you when you have achieved your goal.
Advanced Workouts: More flexible than other Forerunner workouts, advanced workouts let you set up specific steps in your workout.
This caters nicely to multiple discipline gym training, but in practice can be used for any sort of fitness activity.
Advanced workouts allow you to set workout goals and to schedule workouts.
Your watch will remind you of sessions you have planned for today.
When you combine the Garmin Forerunner workout types with the power and technology of GPS, the types of workouts you can create are only limited by your imagination.
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